This meant that in practice, jointures could also be created by a post-nuptial settlement, provided the wife was willing.

Lifting his nose sideways, Soames said at once: "This is a post-nuptial settlement on my daughter.

Their existence became publicly known in January 2012 because Randy Fry's ex-wife, Laurie Hammer had attempted to challenge a post-nuptial settlement agreement under which she agreed to accept "units" of The Taw in settlement of her claims against Randy.

Sir Robert Loftus and his wife lived in the chancellor's house, and mainly at his expense, until the beginning of 1637, when the lady's half-brother, Sir John Gifford, petitioned the king, as her next friend, for specific performance of her father-in-law's alleged promise as to a post-nuptial settlement.